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As the Italian parliament prepares to vote to turn a decree which places unprecedented limitations on the right to protest into law, Amnesty International joins nationwide demonstrations today against ...
Each day Humble supplies enough energy to melt 7 million tons of glacier!” boasts the headline from a 1962 double-page spread in Life magazine for Humble Oil, now part of ExxonMobil. Fast forward 60 ...
Japan’s agriculture minister, Taku Etō, resigned on May 21 just six months into his term, following a public backlash to his joke that he never buys rice because supporters give it to him for free.
An upcoming protest in Washington on June 6 isn’t the first time veterans have protested their treatment by the US government. Veterans have been mobilizing and agitating at home since the Civil War.
Secretary-General António Guterres renewed his calls for Member states and the United Nations to work towards justice and reparations for Africans and the diaspora in a speech in New York on Friday.
Neurosymbolic AI combines the learning of LLMs with teaching the machine formal rules that should make them more reliable and energy efficient.
Following the United Nations Security Council’s decision to renew the arms embargo on South Sudan for another year, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere ...
From Athens to the British Empire and on to the US – dominant powers have used might and consent to exert influence.
Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Social Work and Human Services, Kennesaw State University Detroit’s population grew in 2024 for the second year in a row. This is a remarkable ...
Shannon Van Zandt, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University Low-income neighborhoods have the hardest time recovering from disasters without help. FEMA used to ...
In April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers, offering long-awaited clarification on how “sex” should be interpreted under the Equality ...
Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians were running these calculations by hand.